Talk about coincidence. This shopkeeper is reading Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger and last week in one of the chapters, he read about the Milgram Experiment.

Earlier this week, he chanced upon the trailer of an up-coming film, Experimenter, that is based on the experiment.

Referred by Munger as one of the most famous social/ psychology experiments, he stated that many researchers had later referred to the result of the experiment to conclude that a voice of authority could alone be the domineering factor over an individual's decision-making process.

Their conclusions are, at one level, ironical (as they relied on or obey the authority of the Milgram Experiment in reaching their conclusions).

On another level, they are overly simplified. As the trailer touched on briefly when the Milgram character retorted that "no one was forced... the person has a choice", obedience to authority cannot be the only factor in one's thought process. Only by approaching the question with a multiple-model approach (Munger calls it the Lollapalooza Effect) can one be arriving at a decision more accurately.

This shopkeeper revisited Amadeus by watching the Director's Cut version (he prefers the theatrical release version). He began to look through the Shop's collection of films on DVD/Bluray that features real-life musicians (and their music, of course).

These are good films that offer good drama and intricate character developments. More than that, this shopkeeper is also deeply moved because of the depiction of the struggles these geniuses had to go through and endure in their pursuits of perfection.

Indeed, it is ultimately the humanistic aspect that this shopkeeper tries to look out for in any art subjects and forms an opinion if he likes them.